If you go into town and use SVO-p, for at least 4 hours, you may observe
some interesting reactions from those you talk to.
I hope you plan to give it this exercise a try
Daniel
On 1/16/16 7:20 AM, Arno Baltin wrote:
Dear Daniel!. Dear Co-Listeners!
I like the SVO-p. I did some "research" and found out that one of my
favourite author, Alan Alexander Milne, uses SVOP-p a lot:
/ On Monday, when the sun is hot
I wonder to myself a lot:
"Now is it true, or is it not,"
"That what is which and which is what?" /
/
/
/or/
/
/
/ Isn't it funny
How a bear likes honey?
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
I wonder why he does? //
/
/
/
There are 11 occasions o of of SVO-p in Winnie The Pooh
<http://www.lib.ru/MILN/pooh.txt_with-big-pictures.html#3> all
together :)
And it is interesting that all of them are lost when translated into
Estonian :(
And it makes a lot of sense to translate the "ordinary" questions into
the SVO-p.
Be well!
*Arno*
**
2016-01-08 3:09 GMT+02:00 Daniel Mezick via OSList
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
Greetings to All Who Inquire (the "AWI people"....)
Questioning questioning is meta-questioning or "questioning qua
questioning." The linguistic dimension of the interrogative tense
in English is interesting to me.
SVO-P is a syntax. The SVO-p syntax (subject-verb-object, present
tense) has no interrogative form. So-called "questions" are best
phased starting with "I wonder," for example, "I wonder if anyone
cares at all about SVO-p."
SVO-p is consistent with trend following (also known as "wave
riding.")
Forming expressions in SVO-p helps the listener to quickly
identify who is acting, what the action is, and upon what. SVO-p
keeps thoughts in the now and may help clarify your thinking.
The past is often a convenient dumping ground for blame; the
future is often a convenient place to deposit promises.
Present-tense expressions (in general) and SVO-p (in particular)
both tend to make indirect communication in English very difficult.
The statement:
"My people will call your people, and we'll do lunch."
In SVO-p, it reads like this:
"My people plan to call your people about lunch."
The question:
"Does anyone have a question?"
In SVO-p, it reads like this:
"I wonder if anyone has a question."
Some languages are "tenseless" .....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenseless_language
There is controversy about how the Hopi language handles time:
some say it is a tenseless language:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi_time_controversy
I hope you give SVO-p a try. You might want to walk around your
town, and talk to people in SVO-p. The results are interesting.
The results may surprise you.
Kind Regards,
Daniel
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